Shirt.



No. 636,523. Patented Nov. 7, I899. .1. .1. HAGEDORN.

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(Application filed July 12, 1899.)

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UNITED ESTATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. HAGEDORN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 636,523, dated November '7, 1899.

Application filed July 12,1899. Serial No. 723,538. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN J. HAGEDORN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirts, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to that class of shirts comprising a body and a separable bosom; and it consists of novel locking means for securing said bosom to the shirt which permit the same to be readily removed and replaced, which obviates .the employment of buttons and similar fastening means, and which allows the body to be used as a neglige shirt when the bosom is separated therefrom.

The invention further consists of the structural details hereinafter fully described and specifically claimed.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a shirt and bosom constructed in accordance with my invention partly broken away. Fig. 2 represents a transverse section thereof. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section of another embodiment of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a shirt comprising a body B and bosom O. The body B is made like an ordinary neglige shirt, with an open or closed bosom portion B, and is further provided at each side with outer flaps or reinforcements D, extending inwardly from the sides of the body B and terminating at the sides of the said bosom portion B. These reinforcements are connected with the body at their upper, lower, and outer edges, While their inner edges are provided with outwardly-extending flaps E, situated between said reinforcements and the body of the shirt. The said fiap E forms one member of the locking means between each side of the body B and separable bosom C, the other member being carried by said separable bosom. The bosom O is provided with the neckb'and F, fitting the neckband of the body, and extends between the inner edges-of the reinforcements. At each side of the bosom O is an extension G that is not as stiff as the bosom, while there is'a joint between said parts to permit the extension to be readily bent. In=

wardly-extending flaps or tongues H, forming the other members of the locking means, are secured to the outer edges of said extensions and are adapted to lie close against the outer faces thereof. These flaps H are of thicker material and stiiferthan the said extensions G. These extensions G and flaps-I-I are of the same length as the pockets formed by the flaps E and are adapted to fit therein, the flaps H being situated between the outer flap or reinforcements D and the body of the shirt.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the bosom O is closed and the flaps E extend inwardly from the outer flaps or reinforcements D; but in Fig. 3 the bosom O is open or made in two parts, held together by studs in a familiar manner. The reinforcements are dispensed with and a short outer flap D employed, to the inner edge of which the inner fiapE is connected. Otherwise the construction is the same as above described.

The operation is as follows: The bosoms G are flat, with the extensions G extending in the same plane. The flaps H lie flat against the outer faces of the extensions. To secure and lock the bosom to the shirt, the reinforcements or outer flaps are raised to permit the insertion of the extensions and flaps of the bosom, the former bending with sufficient ease to facilitate the same. The flaps G. are then looked with the flaps E, as shown. The collar-button (shown dotted) secures the neck portions of the shirt body and bosom. It is obvious that the bosom can be readily applied and as readily removed. The locking of the sides of the bosom and shirt is accomplished without the use of buttons or the like, and the arrangement of the parts is such that the appearance of the garment is not marred, while the shirt proper can be used without the stifi bosom C, as the bosom portion thereof is made with this end in View.

It will be noted that I not only provide a pocket at each side of the bosom, such pocket being formed between the bosom portion of the shirt and the inwardly-extending outer flaps D, but that an outwardly-extending flap E is, situated between the sides of said pocket, being connected at its inner edge to the inner edge of the outer flap D. The other and free edge of this flap is near the rear end of the pocket, and it is around this flap that the extension G and flap H of the bosom O are interlocked. The. said extension G is interposed between the edge of the bosom and the flap H to permit the latter to be readily interlocked with the flap E and is made thinner and not as stiff as the bosom or flaps H, that it may be more conveniently manipulated, for, owing to the small extent to which the outer side of the pocket or flap D and the flap E can be raised, it is necessary to bend the extension G considerably to avoid breaking the starched bosom C or marring the appearance of it or the flap D.

I am aware that it has been proposed to make a shirt with pockets at the sides of the bosom into which the side edges of a separable bosom are inserted. This shirt has no means to prevent the sides of the separable bosom from moving inwardly, and the bosom is held in place by a'stud. I am also aware that it has been proposed to provide overlapping parts of an open-front shirt with pockets on one part and interlocking lappets or flaps on the other part; but in this shirt the parts of the bosom were locked only against outward movement and if moved toward each other become separated. In my invention, however, both sides of the bosom are positively locked against either inward or outward movement and can only be separated after the inwardly-extending flap H on the side edges of the bosom is unfastened and removed from the flap E, situated within the pocket and terminating near the rear end of the latter.

Having thus described m y invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A shirt having outwardly-extending flaps aside of the bosom portion thereof and a separable bosom having lateral extensions and inwardly-extending tongues at the outer ends of said extensions, the latter being adapted to be situated between said flaps and bosom portion, and said tongues being adapted to occupy and interlock with the members of said flaps.

JOHN J. I[AGEDORN.

Witnesses:

A. SINZIIEIMER, LELAN BATE. 

